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Steering Commitee membership, nominations and elections

Information about officers and members of the Steering Committee is stored in _data/sc.yml in four lists, one for officers of the Steering Committee (officers), one for members of the Steering Committee (members), one for elections to the Steering Committee (elections), and one for nominations for elections to the Steering Committee (nominations). There is additionally one associative array, nominations_settings, which contains information used in the Call for Nominations.

Each item in the officers and members lists consists of an associative array with the following structure:

Key	Required?	Type	Explanation	Example
name	Yes	string	Name of the Officer/Member	Minha Lee
photo	Yes	string	Filename of a square profile photo the Officer/Member, stored in assets/img/sc/	minha-lee.png
url	No	string	URL/personal website for the Officer/Member	https://minha-lee.github.io
roles	No	list	List of associate arrays, for each role the Officer/Member holds on the committee. Each item consists of two keys: role (string) and term (string)	- role: Co-Chair term: 2024–2027

Each item in the elections list consists of an associative array with the following structure:

Key	Required?	Type	Explanation	Example
title	Yes	string	Name of the office	CoChair
term	Yes	string	Years the elected individual will serve	2023–2026
nominations	Yes	assoc. array	A list of all those nominated, where each list item is an associative array. Each item consists of two keys: name (name) and biography (bio).	name: Minha Lee bio: Minha Lee is...

Each item in the nominations list consists of an associative array with the following structure:

Key	Required?	Type	Explanation	Example
title	Yes	string	Name of the office	Co-Chair
term	Yes	string	Years the elected individual will serve	2023–2026
overview	Yes	string	An explanation of what the role entails	The Co-Chair....
responsibilities	Yes	list	A list of responsibilities, where each item is an associative array with the required keys title (string) and tasks (list of strings)	- title: Governance tasks: - Do x, y and z

The nominations_settings associative array consists of the following data:

Key	Required?	Type	Explanation	Example
link	Yes	string	Link to the nomination form	CoChair
deadline	Yes	string	Deadline for nominations in the format YYYY-MM-DD	2023-05-27
contact	Yes	assoc. array	Who individuals should contact, should they have any questions. This consists of two required keys: the name of the individual to contact (name, string) and their email address (email, string)	name: Benjamin Cowan email: benjamin.cowan@...

Constitution

The file _data/const.yml contains information relating to the Constitution of the Steering Committee, and has the following data:

Key	Required?	Type	Explanation	Example
file	Yes	string	Path to the PDF of the constitution	/assets/pdf/cui-conference-constitution.pdf
date	Yes	string	Date the constitution was last updated and approved	2024-04-19

Conference data

Data from annual conferences is stored in a number of different files and locations.

Conferences list

Primary conference data (that is, conference names, dates, URLs, sponsors, and awards) is stored in _data/conf.yml file. Data is stored as a series of associative arrays, one for each year of the conference. Each associative array should be given the key of the full conference year (e.g., 2025). Each associative array consists of a series of items, each of which are described below.

Key	Required?	Type	Explanation	Example
name	Yes	string	Name of the conference	ACM CUI 2025
type	Yes	string	Type of conference (e.g., ACM incoop or SIGCHI specialised)	a SIGCHI specialised conference
covid19virtual	No	boolean	Was the conference virtual due to COVID-19? false if not included.	true
location	Yes	string	Location of the conference	Waterloo, ON, Canada
dates	Yes	assoc. array	Must contain two items: start and end, both of which are dates formatted as YYYY-MM-DD	start: 2025-07-08 end: 2025-07-10
general_chairs	No	list	List of assoc. arrays of general chairs, with two items: their name (string) and their website (string)	- name: Martin Porcheron website: https://...
logo	Yes	string	Filename for a square image stored in assets/img/conference/	cui2025.png
urls	No	assoc. array	Names and URLs for different conference pages. Expected keys: website, proceedings, and programme	website: name: Website link: https://cui.acm.org/2025/
sponsors	No	list	Names and URLs for conference sponsors	name: SIGCHI link: https://www.sigchi.org/
awards	No	assoc. array	Three data for Honourable Mentions (hon_mentions), Best Papers (best_paper), and Outstanding Service awards (outstanding_service) given at a conference, and a fourth (track links) for linking awards to the tracks that were eligble for them. best_papers and hon_mentions items have the following keys: title (string), authors (string, for authors list with Oxford comma), and dl (string, for ACM Digital Library link) corresponding to recipients. outstanding_service has the following keys: recipient (string), role (string), and explanation (string), corresponding to recipients. track_links is an assoc. array where the key is an award (hon_mentions or best_papers) and the value is a list of keys from _data/stats.yml tracks assoc. array.	best_papers: - title: Progressivity for Voice... authors: Joel E Fischer, ... dl: https://doi.org/10.1145/... hon_mentions: - title: Crowdsourcing a self-evolving... authors: Patrik Jonell, ... dl: https://doi.org/abs/10.1145/... outstanding_service: - recipient: Justin Edwards role: Hybrid Chair explanation: The CUI 2023 General...
listdetails	No	assoc. array	Information used in the conference list page. Supported keys: preamble (adds text prior to the 'About' summary for a conference')	preamble: > Where it all began!

Note that the conferences webpage shows information about a conference once there are statistics, awards, or general chairs associated with a conference.

Conference statistics

The file _data/stats.yml contains programme and registration statistics for each conference year. There are four associative arrays in this file.

The years list is the years for which should be included in conference statistics. This can be used to avoid including empty data for a conference before any statistics have been compiled, but after tracks have been entered.

The registrations_footnotes list is a series of explanations for registration numbers. Each footnote may be reused for more than one conference. Conferences can attach a footnote using the footnote_id key.

The registrations associative array has the following structure:

Key	Required?	Type	Explanation	Example
total	Yes	string	Total number of registrations including free registrations such as invited speakers, student volunteers, and organisers etc.	67
virtual	Yes	string	Number of registrations for remote/virtual attendance	0
footnote_id	No	int	Index of a footnote (from registrations_footnotes list). Starting index is 1 (i.e., first footnote is index 1).	1

The tracks associative array contains items where the key is a track identifer and the value has the following structure:

Key	Required?	Type	Explanation	Example
title	Yes	string	Name of the track	Doctoral Consortium
lang	Yes	assoc. array	How to describe submissions/acceptances (in a sentence); two keys/values (both string): singular and plural	singular: Doctoral Consortium participant plural: Doctoral Consortium participants
data	No	assoc. array	Submissions and acceptances for a track for a given year	2019: submissions: 28 acceptances: 9

Conference Expressions of Interest

The announcement of an Expression of Interest to host a future conference is configured in _data/conf_host.yml, with the following data:

Key	Required?	Type	Explanation	Example
show	Yes	bool	Show the EOI section on the conference page	true
preamble	Yes	string	Information shown at top of the EOI	For its fifth iteration,
postamble	Yes	string	Information shown at bottom of the EOI	Expressions of Interest will...
conference	Yes	string	Name of the conference	ACM CUI 2023
form	Yes	string	URL of the EOI form	https://docs.google.com/forms....

Workshops

File file _data/ws.yml contains information about satellite workshops affiliated with the ACM CUI community. The newest conference should be at the top of the list. The file contains a list of associative arrays with the key-value pairs:

Key	Required?	Type	Explanation	Example
title	Yes	string	Title of the workshop (do not include CUI@...)	Collaborating through Conversational User Interfaces
location	Yes	string	City and country of there workshop	Virtual Event or Portland, OR, USA
date	Must include date or dates	string	Date of the workshop	2020-10-17
dates	Must include date or dates	assoc. array	Dates of the workshop as an associative array with two keys for the starting date (start, string) and ending date (end, string)	start: 2020-10-17 end: 2020-10-18
conference	Yes	string	Conference the workshop will be co-located at	CSCW 2020
url	No	string	URL of the workshop website	https://cui.acm.org/workshops/CSCW2020/